Lesson video

Hi, everyone.

Welcome to lesson one, unit one, What is Pulse? I'm Ms. Glover.

I'm going to be your music teacher for today.

Before we begin, can you tell me what your name is and maybe what your favourite song is so I can get to know you a little bit better? Fantastic.

I feel like I know you a little bit better already.

Now find somewhere comfortable where you are free from distractions and it's nice and quiet and then we're ready to begin.

I guess you are wanting to find out what you're going to be learning today.

Well, by the end of today's lesson you will be able to say, I can hear the pulse, I can move my body in time to the pulse, I can count how many beats, and I can describe what the pulse is.

In this lesson, you will need, your body, give us a wave, your voice, say hello, your brain check, it's still inside your head and a teddy or toy.

If you don't have a teddy or toy with you right now, pause the video to go and get one.

You can click play again once you're finished.

Okay.

Now we're going to sing a song.

This is called the welcome everybody song.

It's words are really easy and I'm sure you can join in.

But first I'm going to sing it to you so that you can hear what it you sound like.

While I do that, I want you to listen very, very carefully to what you think my hands are doing.

Okay? Let's go.

♪ welcome everybody it's time for us to sing ♪ ♪ Welcome everybody it's time for us to sing ♪ ♪ One, two, three, four, five, six, eight, nine, 10 ♪ ♪ It's time for us to sing ♪ I'm going to sing that one more time, make sure you're listening very carefully to what my hands are doing.

♪ Welcome everybody it's time for us to sing ♪ ♪ Welcome everybody it's time for us to sing ♪ ♪ One, two three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 ♪ ♪ It's time for us to sing ♪ What were my hands doing? Were they clapping a steady pulse like this, or were are they clapping a random pattern like this? That's right.

They were clapping a steady pulse.

Fantastic.

Now it's your time to join in with the singing.

Okay.

We'll sing it one line at a time.

So my turn, your turn so that you can get the words right and then we will sing it all the way through.

♪ Welcome everybody it's time for us to sing ♪ ♪ Welcome everybody it's time for us to sing ♪ ♪ One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 ♪ ♪ It's time for us to sing ♪ Fantastic.

All the way through, all together.

♪ Ready? Welcome everybody it's time for us to sing ♪ ♪ Welcome everybody it's time for us to sing ♪ ♪ One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 ♪ ♪ It's time for us to sing ♪ Great job.

This time we're going to make sure we're singing it beautifully, but we're also clapping our hands to that steady beat.

Are we ready? ♪ Ready? Welcome everybody it's time for us to sing ♪ ♪ welcome everybody it's time for us to sing ♪ ♪ One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 ♪ ♪ It's time for us to sing ♪ Fantastic.

Now pause the video and sing the welcome song to your teddy or an adult who is with you.

Press play again once you've finished.

This song is all about a bumblebee called Hickety Tickety.

Have you got a bumblebee called Hickety Tickety? I bet you have.

Can you get him out of your pocket and say, hello, Hickety Tickety? Hello, Hickety Tickety? Here's my Hickety Tickety.

He's a big bumblebee.

He's going to help you with your singing today.

And he would really, really like to know your name.

So this song is all about Hickety Tickety learning your name.

Hickety Tickety is going to sing to you and you're going to sing your name back to him.

I'll show you how it goes first.

♪ Hickety Tickety bumblebee can you sing your name to me ♪ Then I would sing, ♪ My name is Ms. Glover ♪ What's your name? Should we try it with Hickety Tickety? ♪ Hickety Tickety bumblebee can you sing your name to me ♪ Fantastic.

Can you get your teddy to sing his name to Hickety Tickety? Let's try.

♪ Hickety Tickety bumblebee can you sing your name to me ♪ Awesome.

You're great at this.

Do you know the song called "Cross Buns"? I'm sure you do, but just in case, I'm going to go over the words and you're going to repeat them back to me.

♪ Hot cross buns ♪ ♪ Hot cross buns ♪ ♪ One a penny, two a penny ♪ ♪ Hot cross buns ♪ It's pretty easy, isn't it? Let's do it all the way through together.

♪ Ready? Hot cross buns hot cross buns ♪ ♪ One a penny, two a penny hot cross buns ♪ Fantastic.

Now we're going to keep the beat while we're singing Hot Cross Buns.

To do this, we're going to pretend we're rolling out the hot cross buns dough.

So have you got your rolling pin? Show me your rolling pin.

Let's go.

♪ Ready? Hot cross buns, hot cross buns ♪ ♪ One a penny, two a penny hot cross buns ♪ Fantastic.

Now let's try again, this time, now our dough is nice and flat.

We're going to cut them out with cookie cutters.

Have you got your cookie cutter? ♪ Ready? Hot cross buns, hot cross buns ♪ ♪ One a penny, two a penny hot cross buns ♪ Fantastic.

I wonder how many hot cross buns we've made.

In a minute we're going to try counting them, but for now let's try putting our crosses on our hot cross buns.

Okay.

You can see we've made our hot cross buns on the screen now, we're going to put our crosses on them like this, cross, cross, cross, cross in time to the song.

Are you ready? Then let's go.

♪ Hot cross buns, hot cross buns ♪ ♪ One a penny, two a penny hot cross buns ♪ I hope they've all got nice cross on them.

While they're baking in the oven, we're going to have a go at clapping in time to the beat.

Are you ready? Let's go.

♪ Hot cross buns, hot cross buns ♪ ♪ One a penny, two a penny hot cross buns ♪ Let's check, are they cooked, do you think? I think they might need a little bit more time.

Hurry up hot cross buns.

Let's see if we sing our song a little bit faster, If they'll cook a little bit faster too.

♪ Ready? Hot cross buns, hot cross buns ♪ ♪ One a penny, two a penny hot cross buns ♪ I still think they could do with a couple more minutes.

Let's go even faster this time.

♪ Ready? Hot cross buns, hot cross buns ♪ ♪ One a penny, two a penny hot cross buns ♪ Looks like they are cooked to me.

Fantastic job.

Staying in time to the beat.

Well done you.

This time, I'm going to sing in clap hoc response.

While I do that, I want you to listen very carefully and count how many beats are in the song.

That's how many times I clap.

Is also how many buns we cut out with our cookie cutter.

It's really, really important to know how many hot cross buns we've made.

So count really carefully, I'm going to ask you after I finish, how many beats you think Hot Cross Buns had.

♪ Hot cross buns hot cross buns ♪ ♪ One a penny, two a penny hot cross buns ♪ What number did you get? Fantastic.

Let's double check by doing it one more time.

Are you ready to count again? Let's go.

♪ Hot cross buns, hot cross buns ♪ ♪ One a penny, two a penny hot cross buns ♪ How many beats does Hot Cross Buns have? Is it 12 or 16? That's right, it has 16 beats.

Well done you.

What is the pulse in music? Is it the heartbeat of the music or is it the instruments used to play the music? Well done.

It's the heartbeat of the music, you're right.

The last thing we're going to do today is we are going to listen to some music.

This music is by Henry Purcell and it's called Rondeau.

We're going to listen really, really carefully to what the beat is doing and we're going to see how many different ways we can move our body in time to the beat.

We might choose to pat our head, pat our nose, pat our shoulders, clap our hands, pat your lap.

There are so many different ways we can keep the beat and how many different ways you can do it.

Fantastic.

Well done you.

Let us check what we've learned today.

Have you learnt to hear the pulse? Have you learnt to move your body in time to the polls? Have you learnt to count how many beats a song has? And lastly, can you describe what a pulse is? I think you can do all those things now.

You've done a fantastic job today, well done.

I've really enjoyed working with you in this lesson.

I hope you've enjoyed it too.

I hope you come back next time so that we can learn more about pulse and beat.

Before you come back next time, maybe you can help somebody else in your house to understand what pulse and beat is.

And if you hear a song on the radio or on the TV or if you just feel like singing, maybe you can try clapping along with the pulse too.

I've had fun today, I hope you have too and I'll see you next time.

Goodbye.

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